The Gulf’s trillions used to land in London. Not anymore. The strait that stopped mattering, the “grassroots” that turned out to be billionaires — and your 10-to-15-person assignment before November.
Trump and Bessent are dismantling the offshore financial system that has looted nations for decades. Could the rescue of Japan’s yen be the opening move in a new global order?
Join us LIVE next Thursday! Not a bombing campaign — an ultimatum to every bank, registry, and swap line keeping Tehran alive. We dig into who the enablers are, and why the Kim summit is the other half of the story.
The key outcome of Trump's China visit was the personal trust between Trump and Xi — Xi's "secret garden" tour, previously reserved for Putin — establishing guardrails for the U.S.–China race. London and Carney are screaming.
Barbara Boyd argues the key outcome of Trump’s China visit was the personal trust between Trump and Xi, symbolized by Xi’s “secret garden” tour previously reserved for Putin, and framed as establishing guardrails for U.S.–China strategic and tech competition amid the Iran war and energy geopolitics. She says London and Democrats are “screaming” because Trump is reshaping global economic relationships while Treasury Secretary Bessent lifts U.S. sanctions on Russian exports. The episode targets Mark Carney and Keir Starmer as City of London figures who tried to capture China finance, advance BRICS as a dollar alternative, promote a synthetic reserve currency via CBDCs, and steer $130T through green finance—efforts Boyd says have failed as Trump reverses “Green New Deal” policies. She highlights DOJ election-rigging probes, renewed scrutiny of “Russiagate,” anti-fraud prosecutions, voter backlash, and insurgent politics in Los Angeles and London.
00:00 The Monday Brief - Trump and Xi’s Secret Garden: Why London Is Panicking and Carney Is Done - May 18, 2026
01:04 The Real “Event” in China
04:19 Mark Carney’s Third Way Will Fail
05:18 Carney’s 1st Project: London’s attempted capture of China
06:12 Carney’s 2nd Project: Goldman Sachs and the BRICS counterpole
06:43 Carney’s 3rd Project: Replacing the dollar with a synthetic currency
07:10 Carney’s 4th Project: Green finance as globalist capital control
08:06 Trump Is Back and Rocking Ahead of the Midterms
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Trump and Bessent are dismantling the offshore financial system that has looted nations for decades. Could the rescue of Japan’s yen be the opening move in a new global order?
Susan reads Canada's rap sheet — transshipment smuggling, forced-labor failures, snow-washing — and contrasts Chris Wright's civilizational case for energy with Joly's "geo-industrialization," as a Green Party petition targets Ambassador Hoekstra.
Hillary Clinton backs Trump’s Gaza peace plan as Democrats fracture. Can Republicans turn Trump’s working-class agenda into a winning coalition before the midterms?
Broken sailors on the USS Lincoln is textbook cognitive warfare — and Barbara Boyd shows why attacking American troops' resilience is the psywar mistake that will haunt London and the Democrats through the midterms.
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